CHAPTER I. ANONO the various orders of mammalia, from which man has reclaimed and domesticated certain species-species, the possession of which, in a state of subjectiol and dependence, contribute essentially to his welfare-that of the Buminantia, or ruminating animals, affords him the greatest number and those not of the lowest importance. To this order belong the camel, the llama and its allies, the different species of the ox, the sheep, and the goat. Since the remotest periods of history, the ox and the sheep have been regarded in the light of pioperty nor is their intrinsic value less appreciated after a lapse of ages. Who does not know how intimately the wellbeing of a, nation is connected with its agrarian produce, whether animal or vegetable and how closeiy the interests of commerce and of agriculture are inter-blended together It has been said by some one, that he who makes two stalks of corn gram where only one grew before, is a benefactor of his country and by a parity of...